Mop.



H. B. WALLACE.

MOP.

APPLICATION FILED MAY a9, 1914.

1, 1 1 3, 1 75. Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS 60.. PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNIT D sTA'rEs PATENT orisrcn HARRY B. WALLACE, 0]? ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI,ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL SUPPLIES WOODEN VJARE COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS,MISSOURI, A COR-PURATION 0F MISSOURI.

MOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 29, 1914.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914:;

Serial No. 841,720.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY B. VVALLAOE, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Mops, of which the following is a1 in theend portion of the mop stick, said specification.

T his invention relates to mop holders, and I has for its object toprovide a holder having a crotch or a plurality of crotches, or thelike, into which mop material is retained by binding means which, also,secures the mop head upon the end of the mop. stick, the

novelty of the present invention residing in the provision of a mopholder which is formed so that the binding means will prevent rotarymovement of the holder about the end of the mop stickand will hold. theends of the holder securely in overlapped relation, thereby obviatingthe necessity and expense of riveting the ends of the holder together ashas been heretofore customary.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, inwhich like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur,Figure 1 is an elevation of a mop equipped with this improved head; Fig.2 shows the mop cords in the position relative to the mop-head and tothe end of the mop stick that they occupy while being bound or wiredthereto and immediately after the binding operation has been completed;and Fig. 3 shows the mop-head in the position relative to the end. ofthe mop stick that it occupies and the arrangement of the means forbinding the mop material in the head and, also, to the end of the stick.

The mop head 1 is preferably formed by stamping same from a piece ofsheet-metal. In the particular edge of the head 1 that becomes the edgetoward the handle of the mop stick 2 there is formed a pair of notches 3adjacent to the ends, respectively, of the head and, also, a third notch4 substantially midway between the notches 3 so that,when the ends ofthe head are brought together and overlapped to form the head into acyl-- ably directly opposite the other notch 5,

said notches 5 and the outer edge of" the perforation being located atsuch distance from the end of the stick that said wire allows the end ofthe stick to protrude into the mop head preferably to a point at oradjacent to thebottom of each notch 5, as best seen in Fig. 8, leavingan open space 8 in the outer end of the mop head. A suitable quantity ofmop material 9 is laid across the open space 8 and the notches 5, andthe wire 6, after being passed through the perforation, 7, is drawnabout the bunch of mop material 9 and its ends secured together by meansof loops 10 in the usual manner, so as to bind the cords in the space 8and notches 5 and, also, to hold the mop material and the mop headfirmly upon the end of the mop stick. The wire 6passes through thenotches 3 and 4 and thereby not only prevents the mop head from slidingfarther on the mop stick, but, also, prevents rotary movement of the mophead on the mop stick. By

reason of the wire 6 passing through the notches 3 and interlocking withends of the mop head, as hereinabove described, the ends of the mop headare thereby held securely in overlapped relation, and, by thisarrangement, the necessity of securing the ends of the mop head togetherby rivets or the like as has been heretofore. customary is obviated.

It will be observed that the corner protuberances 11 adjacent to thenotches 3 project slightly beyond the end edge of the mop head, and thatthe side edges of each notch 3 converge from the bottom of same, thepurpose of this arrangement being to facilitate the operation of bindingthe mop head upon the end of the mop stick. By this arrangement, it isonly necessary to bring the two ends of the mop head together andoverlapped sufi iciently to allow the wire 6to enter between the inneredges 12 of the protuberances 11, whereupon the drawing of the wiretightly about themop material 9 to bind the latter in the, mop head, ashereinabove described, causes the mop head to move upwardly on the mopstick, whereby the wire 6 forces the converging inner edges 12 of theprotuberances 11 farther apart and then seats in the bottoms of thenotches 3, drawing the head closely about the mop stick, While at thesame time the Wire, also, seats in the notch 4.

I claim:

1. In combination With a mop stick having a transverse aperture near oneend thereof, a mop head formed of a strip of sheet metal having its endsbrought together in overlapped relation so that the inner end ofthe'inop head encircles the apertured end of the mop stick, a pair ofregistering notches in the inner edge of the overlapped ends of said mophead, Which. notches communicate With one end of the aperture in the mopstick, mop material located in the outer end of sa-id'mop head, and abinding Wire passing through the aperture in the mop stick and thenotches inthe inner edge of the mop read and adapted to retain theoverlapped ends of said mop head in overlapped relation, to retain themop material in said head, and to restrict the inward and, also, rotarymovement of and to retain said head on said stick.

2. In combination With a mop stick hav ing a transverse aperture nearone end thereof, a mop head formed of a strip of metal having its endsbrought together in overmop stick, a pair of registering notches in theinner edge of the overlapped ends of said mop head, Which notchescommunicate With one end of the aperture in the mop stick, a third notchin the inner edge of said mop head opposite said registering notches andcommunicating With the other'end of the aperture in the mop stick, mopmaterial located in the outer end of said mop head, and a binding wirepassing through the aperture in the mop stick and all of said notches inthe inner edge of said mop head and adapted to retain the overlappedends of said mop head in overlapped relation, to retain the mop materialin said head, and to restrict the inward and, also, rotary movement ofand to retain said head on said stick.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence oftWo Witnesses. HARRY B. WALLACE.

l/Vitnesses:

HARRY H. REIss, 'NANGY C. THOMAS.

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